Fluorescence spectra provide information on the depth of fluorescent lesions in tissue

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1934-1941

  Swartling, Johannes ^a   Svensson, Jenny ^a   Bengtsson, Daniel ^a   Terike, Khaled ^a   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; TUMORS;

FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) REGION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 16644388497     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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